A Marathon Where the Toilets Run to You The London Marathon is renowned for its costumed runners, and this year’s race boasts not one, but three runners attempting to set the world record for fastest marathon while dressed as a toilet . Marcus Mumford is one of these intrepid souls, r...

Friday Five: Tech Tock Here are five bits of technology to wear while running, or hold tech while running, or aid in your escapist fantasies while running. 1) The Smart Sensing Digital Shirt , or D-Shirt, has a GPS, heart-rate monitor, accelerometer, altimeter, and more sewn into its ...

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Fast Not as in speed. As in not eating solid food. Scheduled for a colonoscopy tomorrow (which they just bumped to 90 minutes later) so nothing today but black coffee, Gatorade and chicken broth. Went out and ran 2.75 miles anyway. Now I’m effin’ starving. Well, it’s still Lent, so I ...

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Don’t Ever Be This Guy Tip of the hat to fellow veteran Colo Chive Runner for pointing us to DuffelBlog and its entertaining spoof “Veteran Decides to Start Running Again, Next Thursday Morning .” It features this photo. If that doesn’t get you on the road, nothing will.

Anyone can get hammered after a marathon, but these hardy gentlemen from Asti, Italy, decided not to wait, and created the Drunk Marathon . As you can see from this video , it was everything you imagine it to be.

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Are Race Results Privileged Information? The organizers of the Bournemouth Marathon in England have taken a unique position on the publication of race results. You can view your results, and you can view the results of the top ten runners in each age group, but the organizers are refu...

Why Running Blogs Are Better Than the Wall Street Journal Today’s Wall Street Journal has a wonderful little story about the “balloon ladies” at RunDisney races. They traverse the course at a 16:00 per mile pace and if they pass you, you are likely to be picked up by the sag wagon. St...

Best Marathoner on the Celebrity Fringe Here’s a scoop for you. Which celebrity runner was the fastest of them all in yesterday’s New York City marathon? I’ll give you some time to Google your time away looking for the answer. I’ll even help you with links to some of the dozens of art...